A SET of 12 Victorian mahogany dining chairs, with leather buttoned backs and seats on turned legs, made the day's highest price of £3,600 at Thomas Adams's most recent auction in Blackrock Co Dublin.

Almost as impressive was the sale for £3,500 of a pair of Edwardian satinwood commodes with moulded rectangular tops above three marquetry-decorated graduated drawers, flanking carved foliate sides and scroll feet. An Edwardian Westminster chimes nine-bell inlaid mahogany longcase clock, the broken swan- neck pediment centred by a brass urn, sold for £3,100, while a burr walnut kidney-shaped lady's writing desk, with tooled leather top above nine drawers on a plinth base, made £2,550.

The day's other best prices included £2,000 for a French brass fender and £1,600 for a Victorian mahogany, brass-bound military chest.